News Blog: 2015

Electro-optic modulators, which can switch light on and off within just picoseconds, are enabling ever faster telecommunication over fibre optics, and the same tools have now been harnessed for high-speed and accurate molecular sensing in the near infrared.

Using a portable fNIRS device developed at Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, USA, have identified differences in brain activation patterns associated with postural stability in people with Parkinsonian syndromes and healthy adults.

ChromaDex and American Laboratories have announced the release of a Fourier transform near infrared (FT-NIR) spectroscopy based identification method for the positive identification of desiccated bovine and porcine glandular tissues used in nutritional product formulations

Just as miniature NIR spectrometers are about to appear commercially, might they already be out of date? Miniature hyperspectral cameras could end up in everyday products, from mobile phones, to aerial drones, to action cameras, enabling consumers access to NASA-grade imaging power to improve daily life.